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Just took this cake out of the oven! I baked in a 13x9 for about 30 minutes and I'm thinking I'll use coffee for the icing instead of milk. Also cutting the icing recipe in half because we don't like too much on our cake. Can't wait to taste it...it smells delicious!

Depending on where you live it was probably the altitude. I live in Idaho and have to adjust all my recipes because of it. Usually it's a decrease in liquids and increase in flour. But also a decrease in any leavening agents, so the baking soda and powder in this instance.

I love that recipe and would love to bake it for my family.But I am living in Europe. So, I didn't get the thing with cup as measuring unit. Could you please tell me how many grams you used for one cup? That would be awesome :)

We weren't sure about the grams so welooked it up online and it seems to be different for flour, sugar, and liquids. The best site we found was at: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_grams_are_in_a_cup . It tells you how many for each. Looks like 1 cup of flour is 125 grams. 1 cup of sugar is 200 grams. 1 cup of milk is 245 grams. Hope that helps.

Yeah I have made this recipe for a long time, since it is on the back of the HERSHEY'S COCOA box! Maybe you should give them a little credit eh? ;) Since, yes, it is a very delicious cake. I personally can eat it without frosting.

My cousin made this cake for my (surprise) birthday party. It is the best chocolate cake ever! After a long trip home with leftover cake I put it in the frige and the icing tasted like fudge....so yummy!!!

Yes, amazing cake! I just made it for my daughter's 13th birthday party. Imagine my surprise too when I called my mom to ask her for her old frosting recipe and she said "just use the one on the Hershey Cocoa box" and when I looked ....there is this exact cake recipe. <.< It is a delicious cake.

Made this with GF flour. Looks and smells delicious. I live in Vancouver and found it need to bake for 10 minutes longer as mine was runny too. Could have been because of the flour or that I used coconut milk instead of dairy.

Thank you for this awesome and easy recipe! This is my first chocolate cake and I have a very good feeling! The frosting is done and is silky smooth. The two round cakes are cooling off. I think they will be done just in time for my husband's midnight birthday celebration in an hour. I am just curious, how long do you wait for them to cool off?

This is the best chocolate cake I've ever had, so moist and delicious. Making it a second time for my neighbor because it's her bday. I just used a 9x13 pan and cut it in half and stacked it on top with some frosting in between and then frosted the whole cake with the rest of the frosting. The water really makes a difference, thanks for this wonderful recipe. Will be my forever chocolate cake recipe for sure!

This is the best chocolate cake I've ever had, so moist and delicious. Making it a second time for my neighbor because it's her bday. I just used a 9x13 pan and cut it in half and stacked it on top with some frosting in between and then frosted the whole cake with the rest of the frosting. The water really makes a difference, thanks for this wonderful recipe. Will be my forever chocolate cake recipe for sure!

It turned out perfect and was a perfect solution to the chocolate depression ( no chocolate anywhere!) in our house..... I did add a little less boiling water, as I was worried about the very runny consistency. I would say I used about half a cup.

Just popped this in the oven to try out. I used cadbury cocoa because we don't have hersheys here. And i asses a tsp of coffee to my water. The batter looks so silky and beautiful, and I wont lie, I licked the spatula. �� that tasted amazing...lol. can't wait to try the cake once its cooked and decorated. Im going to do vanilla frosting with ganache drips.